New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 22

several ir a leaking steam pipe in the [survived the fumes may be simply otrects along the way. 2’000]( X-ray flm rn’c:: ‘Wednes- | walking with death, Pearse sald. He 16, of §3 High {day marning. Removing the fireproof | cited cases of persons, apparently “Southinpten. picaded me; [covering, he had found the pipe too who later collapsed the chargé of overioading & | hot 't touch. He went back to his and's continuance until Mon- |shop, leaving the pipe te coel off. 'was ordered in $100 bonds. He Ninety minutes later he returned, to was arrested on West Main street|fnd oke in the room and steam yosterday afternoon by Motoréycle |dripping from the pipes. Officer Alfred Tanguay, and Aasist. | = He seized a fire extinguisher and ant. Prosscuting -Attorney W. M. |piayed it against the celling where Greensteln sald the boy's father had [the émoke and hissing steam seemed spoken to him bout'a continuance |centered. Almost immediately the 20 that he might vonsult the sttor. |first explosion knocked him to the ney for an association of which he is |floor. He was seeking safety when s member. PN TOREBUILD == (LEVELAND CLINKC His error, if such it might be (Continued from First Page) terday and téday filling out burial|he had put the cash bex ia the Com. mo"nui Ll permits. Two assistants were as-|mercial company vault because Lhe | “jonn Blosmstan''of i ig signed to the task. Dr. Pearse and |door of the safe had jammed. street ->po.ted to the Tpdliee . last | 4 lice also seught to i . > pol ught to identify proper: night that »‘, "”‘" Jemsic. aged + Bor e e ot (e WOULD mflm Pm 16, had tarea'{ l::t';::.\l! ON EAST MAIN STREET|roon, ™ Grene stvet where. she were taken to the morgue. They T el Home. -~ Orange street where she has been employed. 8he is five feet, Business Men w‘ L. F.'& C.|4 ches in height and v-elghs about 120 pounds. Bhe wore a red-hat and Employes Occupy Long Stretch CASH BOX YANISHES e = blue - sat. Investigation By Police Reveals Missing Recopiacle Had Been A petition to restrict parking of vehicles to one hour on the north Fionesiin Jesk Yoy side of East Main street: from ¥or a timé late last night the po- |Summer street easterly to the Atlan- lice. had a myatery on their hands, |tic Filling Station at 18¢ East Meain involving the disappearance of the |street has been handed to the police cash box from the safe in the of- |department. At present parking is fice of the Beneficial Loan society at |unlimited and it is said aytomobiles | 99 West Main street. The janitor |driven by Landers factory employes found the safe door open a few |are left at the curb from merning to hours after he had seen it closed, |night, preventing patrons of the and he notified police headquartera. | business houses Sergeant P. A. McAvay communi- | trade. cated with the cashier after an un- Benjamin Driscoll, 8amuel Lehrer, successful effort to locate the man- |the Atlantic Refining Co. and Frank ager, and when the inner compart- | Brigandi are among the signers of ment was opened the bex was |the petition. missed. The manager was located in a restaurant and he explained that e cossideration should be given Bim, = { Ofticer-Danisl J. Cosgrove teatified that be saw an automobile cress .| Main street and go over the side- walk at Lee street about 10:35 o'clock last Saturday night. He caught the number and comman- deered apother car, overtaking the offending car on Franklin street. Matulis was intoxicated behind the wheel. Attorney Casale said” he'did not doubt that Matulis was under the in- fluence of liguor. He is employed by an automobile concern and needs his license, which will be suspended on account of this case, but his em- ployer has agreed to continue him on the payrdll in some other sort of employment until he can drive again. If immediate payment of the pen- alty was demanded by the court, the boy's parents would suffer, as Matu- lis could not afford to pay, the attor- ney said, and then the sting of the punishment would be lost to him. For that reason he asked that Ma- tulis be placed'on probation to pay. Judge Saxe replied that it was not customary to accord drunken drivers the consideration given those who are convicted of lesser offenses, be- cause they are not deserving of con- sideration, but in this case he was willing to make an exception. Drive With Defective Brakes Lawrence DiNatale, 28, of 6 Erin street, Middletown, pleaded guilty to the chaige of driving an automobile with defective brakes and was fined $5 and costs, judgment being sus- pended on the charge of driving without an operator's license in his possession. out of danger, and died. Paul Roquemore of East Dallas, Tex., a volunteer rescue worker, laughed Wedneaday afternoon and boasted “I'm all right” after carry- ing many victims from the Clinic. Today he was dead. Miss Ella Moeller, stenographer, leaped from a Clinic window and congratulated herself on inhaling lit- tle of the gas. Later she felt ill, collapsed and died. Dr. John Phillips, who by admin- istering oxygen once saved the life of the late Ambassador Myren T. Herrick, walked several blocks te- ward his home after the explosion, and then stumbled and fell. Blood transfusion failed to save him. Patrolman Ernest Staab carried 21 persons from the Clinic and later died after taking them to a nearby hospital. Four firemen who aided in the rescues were taken to hospitals Wednesday night. Blood transfu- sions may save them. A fifth felt ill last night and was sent to the same hospital. Mrs. Willlam Langdon of 8haron, Pa., one of those taken from the Clinic, seemed on the way to recov- ery yesterday. Late last night she was added to the death list, Coroner's Opinion Coroner Pearse said today he be- lieved he had traced the centers of the three explosions. The first came after the X-ray plates were touched off, the second occurred in the switchboard and the third in the drug and chemical storeroom, he thought. He was interested princi- pally in how the fire started. The X-ray room was under police guard last night with orders to dis- turb nothing until the official find- DRE‘?SINV YREE ings have been announced. LIVERY The coroner’s office was busy yes- \ Variety Coffee Breads RICH BUTTER CRUMB STREUSEL SQUARES ..,. 20c FROSTED CINNAMON WREATHS .... *“Jf we comtinue to have many drunken driving cases we may ve to send the offenders to jail.” M. D. 8axe said in police court as he imposed a fige of $100 costs and a suspended jail sen- of 15 days in the case of Jo- h Ella, 43, of 364 Cherry street, @ pleaded gullty, Attorney 8. d Casale asked that part of fine be remitted but Judge Saxe saying it is generally ihe jvers who can least afford to pay who become involved in difti- ity with the law. He granted the ltorney’s request to parold” Elia in custody until tomorrow night to the money for the fine and T One Family House, 8 Rooms Fruit Trees and Large . ' Gavrden ‘SEE US AT ONCE BAILEY BROS. 99 W, Main St. Tel. 4347 called, lay in leaving the steam pipe unguarded. Heat Caused Explosion City Fire Wardens P. F. Ferrie and M. . Gross, after studying Boggs' statement and that of Riley A. Mullinneaux, chief engineer of the clinic, sald they believed lhe, heat spreading from the unprotect- ed pipe and escaping steam had caused spontaneous combustion among rolls of highly inflammable X-ray film stored in the basement room. Nitrogen gas given off from the film combined with oxygen in the air to form nitrogen dioxide gus —sure death for those who breathe it deeply. The First Error But this gas would never have escaped from the film room to the floors above except for the error of the second steam-fitter—a man yet unidentified. Years ago thl: man r:: that he had found no evidences of ':“:“;;;"‘,n“‘::;':a":;‘:n (;':";,m“ nrtll[en;:;.’ More May Die place. It protruded from ttr:o ::.l:::: Cleveland, May 17 (UP)—The 204 pre\'cnted‘lh‘eh:l:‘llt:"n:‘,:m. threat of - death hung like a|0f 2 fire doorin the Cred to close Damocles sword over a score of per- | This d0or was fCCE M re room sons today as funeral plans were|When & (RETMOTREICL e of heat. made for the 127 whose lives were |TeBistered & certait SE88 10 ¥ e snuffed out by poison gas and fire in |Had it close ol have Heen {the Cleveland clinic disaster. flames and gas WoRC R thout Patients, doctors, nurses—all those | forced throush a tefliiter B ror. still alive who were in the clinic | harm 10 anyont e i have beed |Wednesday when three explosions | tURate Bogss, ‘w :h ‘the expiaston, |stggting in the X-ray room sent yel. | trapped and X llelw“:vu 1ofish’ nitrogen dioxide fumes{ COTORer Pearse e . o it S CRRRR Ll o e The thermometer worked ‘Wednes- were marked on the danger Mat |, o .noon when the steam himed from stopping to film storage room in the basement where the fire burned the cellulose material and filled the bullding with gases, causing the ewmplosions, laid the origin to spontanecous combus- tion. Escaping steam supplied the heat, they believed. Buffery Boggs, plumber, told them of fighting the thick, brownish cloud of gas alone as he attempted to re- pair a leak. He was blown through a door by the first explosion after emplying a fire extinguisher into the room. Coroner A. J. Pearse announced Officer Peter C. Cabelus testified he arrested Elia last Saturday ht shortly after 10 o'clock after eing him drive from Ellis street to South Main street and strike curbstone twice. The officer ened to shut off the power of & car and on examining Elia be und him unfit to drive. Attorney Casale asked the officer thether Elia was intoxicated or ly under the influence of liquor. e Saxe said it made no dif-| yoorcycle Officer Alfred Tangua nce under the law. but Attorney | yogtifieq that he was testing T le said he was interested in the | o granklin square yesterday fore- ree of the oftence. Officer Cabelus | n5on gng found DiNatale's car with plied that Elia was intoxicated ; ryjy foot braie and a useless <m- d staggered when he left the Car. | orgency brake. Aked for his license Making & ple for special con- | DiNatale had oniy a stub which ex- ; ¢ Casale said Elia | p; B 01 i throe cutigren; [Pl A0 Manh s home is heavily mortgaged and | DiNatale admitted that the emer- clrcumstances are poor. He is|EenCY brake was not in good condi- Painter and works steadily only |'i0%: but he produced his license pring the summer months. At wl'":;:‘ilm": San. mes becwos the § w e top e car esent he is employed in Hartford. SReOA wikan tha oiser sAked for N. B. Live Poultry Market 98 HARTFORD AVE. Special For Saturday LARGE FOWLS ... 35c¢ Ib, BROILERS . .. 40c b, The Strawberry Season Brings These Tasty Goodies to Hoffmann’s STRAWBERRY WHIP CAKES ) STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKES .............. MARY ANN SHELL CAKES—Strawberry filled and topped with whip cream ..... R b SHORTCAKE BISCUIT ......... per dozen 20c and 30c SPONGE CAKES ............s...... €ach 15c and 30c cons 30 to his condition, he claimed to ve had three drinks of light wine ut an hour before he was pated. Matulis Fined $100 | it. &' | his arrest. * A A 21, of 518 He thought pocket and did not find it until after he had it Speeder Fined $10 aplan, 38, of 229 Shuttle in his They, with firemen, policemen and volunteers who carried vietims from the blazing structure, were ordered to report for medical treatient to drive gas poison from their lungs and blood corpuscles. into the room, but the door could not close and the poisonousa tumes raced out unchecked to the croqud floors above. i City, county, state and federal au- thorities expected to go exhaustively CONVENIENT MEAT MARKET 31 LAFAYETTE ST. WALNUT FRUIT BUNS', LARGE TWISTED BORDEAUX RINGS ,.. 'BORDEAUX WALNUT WREATHS .. s DANISH WALNUT BUNS ......... Btanley J. Matulis, urch street was represented by torney Casale and pleaded guilty the charge of operating an auto- blle while under the influence of uor. He was also fined $100 and and given a suspended jail sen- ice of 15 days but Attorney e's request that he be placed on obation to pay the fine was grant- Judge Saxe instructing Proba.- n Officer Connolly to take chargs Matulis if he was satisfied that Meadow avenue, pleaded guilty to the charge of speeding and was fined $10 without costs. He was ar- | resttd by Motorcycle Ofticer “W. S. Strolls aboug 6:55 yesterday morning on Stanley street after the officer had followed him from Hartford avenue to Roxbury road and clocked | him at the rate of 45 and ¥6 miles !an hour. Kaplan had nothing to say and in reply to Judge Saxe, the offi- cer said there were several cars on | the street, some of which Kaplan Due to Two Mistakes The vast destruction of human life In an inatitution erected to pre- serve life was believed today prob- |ably due to two steam-fitters’ blun- ders, each ordinarily excusable One of the steam-fitters, a young man named Buffery Boggs, was held in technical custody after he told his story, between nervous puffs of many cigarettes, to Coroner A. J. Pearse, police and county officials. He sald he had been called to re- ”ENGLISH BATH BUNS CINNAMON BUNS . .... .. dozen 24c HOFFMANN'S | Tomorrow Is Our OPENING DAY y . Meats, Fruits u_nd,“’egehb_les of the'Highest Gyade at Bargain Day Prices TOMORROW SATURDAY into every phase of the tragedy, with a view to fixing criminal responsi- . bility, it any, and preventing similar disasters in the future, Carl Steel, janitor whe tried to help Boggs fix the pipe, was to be questioned. 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